Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Kenneth Patchen Letters

Letter from September 3, 1936:"We must extract the concept of the gunand the sword from the mind-worldin which too many of us live.The fault lies not in what we are,but in that thing which we would become.We must make over not the presentworld of sham and hypocrisy, but ourselves;this means time will leave us when weleave it. And we must get away witha fuller heart than was ever permitted us.All art will follow the art of the living"